RIP Arie Force One

Opinie Tom Kniesmeijer: Waarom puberteitsremmers de oplossing zijn en niet het probleem www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

The older I get, the more I love the sounds of screams you hear at an amusement park. We're staring at our screens all day. Getting out there and experiencing something real, something embodied, something that takes us to the egde of what we dare, that can only be good for us.

SO SICK OF THIS BULLSHIT BURST ALREADY 🫧

Theme park thread! Let's talk about Duinrell! I've visited this place five or six times now, and the last time was well before covid, so Rick the Frog and his posh Wassenaar are due a new evaluation!

We got to fifty! Can you believe it?

Nostalgic dinomatronics!

Kermis Amersfoort. One of the perks of compulsive coaster credit collecting is that sometimes, you ride something for the credit that ends up being, completely accidentally, rather fun.

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with

I've been to Hansa-Park! It's a theme park in Sierksdorf, Northern Germany that has been put on the map by some serious dedication to themeing, as well as some absolutely cuckoo-bananas roller coasters! Enjoy the big review thread! 🧵

I have been! To a place! It was great!

Podcast Episode 48! Of The Dinosaurs and The New Dinosaurs! We review Netflix' latest palaeodoc starring Morgan Freeman, and interview the maestro of speculative evolution himself, Dougal Dixon!

No tyrants.

Thank you Katwijk! It's good being in a band innit

It's been so long since I've done an old fashioned Vintage Dinosaur Art.

A cute children's book this time, as A Boy And His Dinosaur take a hike on foot into the Jurassic. Do you remember this one?

So I'm not an economist and I'm not very smart but I'm trying to wrap my head around the "LLM-based AI is not, in fact, a bubble" mindset. Little thread.

Utahraptor for today's #DrawDinosDaily. These guys feel so much like the Cretaceous equivalent of a lion to me - big, powerful, and fast. 🎨 #SciArt #PaleoArt #dinosaurs

I worked hard on this article. A long trip down memory lane, into the my own past with the past of the past. I think it's a triple time travel.

I think I know who to thank for the new followers. Hiya. I hope you can put up with me whinging about theme parks.

Jenny Rozema: Het Verenigd Koninkrijk verbood transgenderzorg voor kinderen, het aantal zelfdodingen vervijfvoudigde www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Who goes to Port Aventura and thinks "boy, this place sure is well run, we gotta have some of that expertise on board"...?

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Check out this unbelievably cool Jan Sovák painting! How often do you see plesiosaurs and dinosaurs interacting at all, let alone this cinematically? It’s unbelievable how productive Sovák was as an artist, I just keep finding more and more of his work that I’ve never seen before!

That sexual selection is one of the primary drivers in evolution is well established. Studies of Mesozoic #dinosaurs and #pterosaurs, however, have been dominated by the view that the variation, extravagance and diversity seen in these animals is not due to the pressures of sexual selection, but...

Thank you, @dinoconuk.bsky.social . Abuse has no place in the palaeo community. We stand in solidarity with this message, and wtih all the victims of the horrible crimes commited by the Epstein organization.

Fashion Trends for Iguanodons Beaklips = WAY OUT Freaky Feather-Spikes = IN!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Been a fan of @kermodemovie.bsky.social for many years, for his intelligent, cutting and highly moral takedowns of Hollywood grot. The Mark Kermode Rant playlist is my comfort watch on YouTube. Believe me when I say... this is his best bad review in a long career. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyU...

Finally, I can break silence! I did a lot of creature design work for this show (collaborating, of course, with the production team) and think the animals are looking pretty good here! This was a lot of fun to work on - will be watching on Mar. 6! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZB...

The sentence "Gemma remembers a hidden gem in Emmen" is filling me with a word-nerd joy of rare and wondrous enormity ✨

I worked hard on this article. A long trip down memory lane, into the my own past with the past of the past. I think it's a triple time travel.

A bittersweet article today as Gemma remembers a hidden gem in Emmen, a dinosaur museum that is no longer there.

Some capitalist buys some property and decided it can't be arsed to keep the historic roller coaster running anymore. Imagine vandalizing a 100+ year piece of history, not to mention one of the last remaining rides of its kind in the world, out of pure torpor. Sign this petition please.

Discovered by @chasmosaurs.bsky.social coauthor @gemmachaos.bsky.social, this nightmare of a Deinonychus has all the worst aspects of the early CGI revolution and none of the endearing qualities. It's a freakish nightmare, plain and simple. For more like it, go here! chasmosaurs.com/2024/07/13/v...

It feels like the UK theme park scene is falling to bits. No more Ultimate, no more Megafobia, no more Scenic Railway. Alton Towers is struggling, Thorpe Park isn’t seeing a return on investment. What’s next? I really hope I can make it to Blackpool Pleasure Beach this year.

Bernard Robinson is an artist whose work I’ve always been happy to stumble upon. He was extremely skilled and both the quality of his work and its obviously retro nature make it hugely nostalgic for many.

For #FossilFriday I’m pleased to announce our new paper on investigating the cranial performance and evolution of feeding behavior in tyrannosauroids and other theropods. Here’s a thread on some of our major findings. #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Tyrannosaurus #Theropods

It's the first podcast episode of the new year! Chris DiPiazza introduces us to a formative memory and joins the Chasmosaurs panel for an in depth look at the works of one Pam Mara!

A random assortment of pterosaur skulls 🐊

In the season of Santa and weather so bleak, Three natural history nerds take a peek At young ancient mammals, so fluffy and twee As seen on the new show on Apple TV. chasmosaurs.com/2025/12/29/p...

Number five! We're going into spaz with Uncle Chuckletrousers!

It's Viennese Swede Boxing Day

Merry christmas and also number seven. prog-rama.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...

Album number 8! No pun intended, I swear...

Nine days to the new year so here's my ninth album of the year. I guess I like Dream Theater now?

Like every year, I'm counting down to New Years Eve with the Advent Top Ten! Today is the day of number ten! Enjoy my Top Ten Albums of 2025! prog-rama.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...

Eeeee!!!! I got interviewed by Gemma for LitToC podcast!!!! Thanks so much for th invite; it was really fun getting to talk to you about plants and palaeoart! #paleobotany #paleoart #podcast